DNA Barcoding of some Species of Genus Synodontis (Family Mochokidae) from the River Nile in Egypt | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries | ||||
| Article 13, Volume 27, Issue 3, May and June 2023, Page 199-210 PDF (984.55 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejabf.2023.300310 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Mohammad Allam ; Mary Welson
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| Abstract | ||||
| The current work aimed to study the phylogenetic lineages of some species of the genus Synodontis belonging to the family Mochokidae using the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. The nucleotide sequences of COI were inserted into the GenBank with accession numbers (OP143814.1-OP143816.1). The length of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I sequence stretched from 617 bp to 623 bp. The overall genetic distance was 0.09. The COI gene displayed A+T ratio bigger than the C+G ratio. The average nucleotide frequencies of adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G) were 27.30, 25.57, 29.93 and 17.20%, respectively. Among understudied Synodontis fish, the P-distances expanded from 0.0127 to 0.0161%. The highest value (0.0161) was found between Synodontis batensoda and Synodontis schall. While the lowest P-distance (0.0127) was found between Synodontis batensoda and Synodontis clarias. Furthermore, more investigations on the phylogenetics of the family Mochokidae are recommended. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| DNA Barcoding; COI gene; Mochokidae; Synodontis | ||||
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